US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Preventing accidental password disclosure" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,457, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Preventing accidental password disclosure" was invented by Stephen James Hobson (Hampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving a preliminary password key from a user, and in response to receiving the preliminary password, determining whether a cursor of a graphical user interface is located in a password entry field. In response to determining that the cursor of the graphical user interface is not located in the password entry field, a warning is issue...